This month BBC reported that Chechnya may be home to the world’s oldest woman – a villager with a passport listing her birthday as 5 January 1895 would be 116 years old, beating out the current world record holder from America, who is 115:

In other birthday news, Chechnya’s president Ramzan Kadyrov turned 35 this week, and his party featured appearances from notable B-, C-, and D-listers Hillary Swank, Jean-Claude van Damme, and Seal. Video of Ms. Swank’s tribute to President Kadyrov can be found here: